Drt off srt ?

[White Noise]

Cheers Rupe looks like I,ll be trying them all Swabish looks alot neater .

[DrewB]

could you not just make an alpine butterfly below your ascender and clip a revolver or crab/pulley and work off this to make it drt off srt? or wrap a prussic on the srt line and clip into that to work drt? better off just installing a seperate drt line imo and leaving the srt line as an emergency access line

[bob]

anyone else notice the screwgates or am i just sad:blushing:

[Paul Smith]

anyone else notice the screwgates or am i just sad:blushing:

 

first Krab was a screwgate!

[Rupe]

Yes I noticed that.

 

I think the guy was just experimenting with what he had, no problems with that, he wasn't at work (I'm guessing/hoping). He maybe shouldn't have put it on youtube though!

 

It looked as though he was ascending on a hand ascender with foot loop and resting on the rope grab? Not a good set up and should be disregarded completely. Hopefully he had a tether to the hand ascender but I couldn't see for sure.

[jarnii]

ive done this a few times at work and the way i found best was when you instal the access line when about 3-4mts goes through the anchor hold the line and do a alpine b-fly and clip in a pulley and krab, then put your climbing line through and pull the rest of the access line up till you are at the point you want the anchor (normally the top) then tie on your hitch and pull it up to roughly where you want it to be then srt to it connect and disconnect from srt rig. you can then do the work you need to do head back to the srt rig recconnect and do the rest of the ascent or head to ur next part of the tree when u get to the top remove the climbing line and advance or easily just work off it and then retrieve all at the end.

 

i dont like to compromise the entire line so by placing the pulley at the top you can still be rescued and the whole line can still be used.

 

ive done it a few times to save a lot of aggro and isnt to hard at all and works well.

 

hope it helps.

[dangerous brian]

Just buy a lock jack and be done with it.

[Rupe]

How does that help in the scenario shown?

 

Drt off of an srt line is a useful trick. Srt is more efficient for large ascents and easier to set up than a lockjack would be.

[countryboypa31]

ive done this a few times at work and the way i found best was when you instal the access line when about 3-4mts goes through the anchor hold the line and do a alpine b-fly and clip in a pulley and krab, then put your climbing line through and pull the rest of the access line up till you are at the point you want the anchor (normally the top) then tie on your hitch and pull it up to roughly where you want it to be then srt to it connect and disconnect from srt rig. you can then do the work you need to do head back to the srt rig recconnect and do the rest of the ascent or head to ur next part of the tree when u get to the top remove the climbing line and advance or easily just work off it and then retrieve all at the end.

 

i dont like to compromise the entire line so by placing the pulley at the top you can still be rescued and the whole line can still be used.

 

ive done it a few times to save a lot of aggro and isnt to hard at all and works well.

 

hope it helps.

 

Ive tried a lot of DRT off SRT, this is the best in my opinion. Keeps the clutter at your harness down, and allows for quick accent. Also its not very gear intensive.

[Will Hinchliffe]

ive done this a few times at work and the way i found best was when you instal the access line when about 3-4mts goes through the anchor hold the line and do a alpine b-fly and clip in a pulley and krab, then put your climbing line through and pull the rest of the access line up till you are at the point you want the anchor (normally the top) then tie on your hitch and pull it up to roughly where you want it to be then srt to it connect and disconnect from srt rig. you can then do the work you need to do head back to the srt rig recconnect and do the rest of the ascent or head to ur next part of the tree when u get to the top remove the climbing line and advance or easily just work off it and then retrieve all at the end.

 

i dont like to compromise the entire line so by placing the pulley at the top you can still be rescued and the whole line can still be used.

 

ive done it a few times to save a lot of aggro and isnt to hard at all and works well.

 

hope it helps.

 

I like it very simple, will give this a go. I will probably use a mailon rather than a caribener to link my DRT system to the line.